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              mark agents, trade mark attorneys and trade mark registration  
              Protect your trade mark, protect your identity Providing 
              a unique corporate product or service identity, your company's trademark 
              is extremely valuable intellectual property.   
              Regardless of whether your company is large or small, if it is seeking 
              to register new trademarks, our international trademark attorneys 
              carry out trademark searches in all jurisdictions globally and provide 
              expert opinion on the availability and possibility of registering 
              a proposed mark.  
              On your behalf, they frame effective filing strategies and investigate 
              the use of conflicting trademarks.  
              If necessary, they will negotiate with the owners of prior rights 
              with a view to obtaining letters of consent and co-existence agreements. 
              They may use every reasonable means at their disposal to achieve 
              clearance for your trademark.  Trade 
              mark management and monitoring Engage us to manage and monitor your 
            trademark assets - whether a single mark or a complex trademark 
            portfolio - and you can relax in the knowledge that we can maintain 
            a constant watch for newly filed similar marks.  
                         
                           
                          
                When an actual or potential trade 
              mark infringement is identified our trademark attorneys will 
              automatically alert you and advise on what action to take.  
              Our trade mark team has a wealth of reassuring experience representing 
              clients before their national trade marks registries and the OHIM 
              (Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market) which registers 
              the EU Community trademarks as well as dealing with international 
              trademark applications under the Madrid Protocol.
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